Steamship Advertising in Japan

Posted by Miss Cellania in Advertising on May 12, 2010 at 7:33 am

Pink Tentacle has larger versions of 14 beautiful travel posters produced by Japanese steamship companies. These were from the early 20th century, when travel itself was supposed to be as luxurious as the destination. Link

 
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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight

Posted by Miss Cellania in Book & Literature, Fashion on May 5, 2009 at 11:01 am

A little-known leaflet by Upton Uxbridge Underwood circulated in 1913 judges men in a different way, not by their works, but by their fabulous facial hair.

His masterpiece, The Language of the Beard, an epicurean treat confected for the delectation of fellow bon vivants, vaunts the premise that the texture, contours, and growth patterns of a man’s beard indicate personality traits, aptitudes, and strengths and weaknesses of character. A spade beard, according to Underwood’s theories, may denote audacity and resolution, for example, while a forked, finely-downed beard signifies creativity and the gift of intuition, a bushy beard suggests generosity, and so on.

See 15 poets and their beards described and rated. Pictured is the highly-rated beard of Sidney Lanier. Link -Thanks, peacay!

 
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Grand Alphabet Amusant

Posted by Miss Cellania in Book & Literature on February 4, 2009 at 10:12 am


Bibliodyssey has beautiful scans from the book ‘Grand Alphabet Amusant’ by E Morel, published in France in 1890. Some of the scenes picked to illustrate letters may make you scratch your head! Link -via Everlasting Blort

 
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